Interstate 27

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Interstate 27 Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Length:	124.1 mi[1] (198.6 km)
Formed:	1969
South end:	US 87 in Lubbock, TX
North end:	I-40 in Amarillo, TX
Highways in Texas < I-20 I-30 >

Interstate 27 (abbreviated I-27) is an intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of Texas in the United States. It goes from Lubbock, Texas at U.S. Route 87 to Amarillo, Texas at Interstate 40. I-27 is a part of the proposed Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor which would link Denver, Colorado to Laredo, Texas and ultimately, Mexico.

[edit] Route Description

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Interstate 27 has two business routes, both of which are former alignments of U.S. Route 87.

Interstate 27 Business-T is a business loop running through Hale Center, to the west of the interstate. This route was designated in 2002.

Interstate 27 Business-U (former SL 445) is a business loop through Plainview. The road was bypassed in 1967 when US 87 was rerouted to the west of Plainview.

[edit] History

Interstate 27 was not part of the original Interstate Highway System when it was approved in 1956. Authorization of this highway came with the Federal Highway Act of 1968, which authorized the addition of 1500 miles to the system. The route was to grant Interstate access to Lubbock, which was one of only three cities of its size without one. In 1969, TxDOT designated I-27 along U.S. Route 87 from I-40 at Amarillo south to U.S. Route 62 in Lubbock, and was extended through Lubbock in 1976. The portion from Amarillo south to Canyon had already been constructed in the late 1950s, and was already acceptable to interstate standards. The first portion in the Lubbock area began construction in 1975. The northern section was completed in 1986. The final section to be completed was the section through Lubbock, which was opened in September 1992. ^[3]

[edit] Future

This article contains information about a planned or expected future road. It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the road's construction and/or completion approaches and more information becomes available.

Interstate 27 is a part of the proposed Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor which is supposed to link Denver, Colorado to Laredo, Texas and the Mexican border. A map of the proposed routing can be seen here.

Although there are currently no spur routes off of I-27, there is a beltway around Lubbock and an accompanying spur highway from the southwest side. There are arguments that the beltway (currently signed as State Highway Loop 289) should be renamed I-227 and the spur highway (currently signed as State Highway Loop 327) I-327.

The Marsha Sharp Freeway is an under construction freeway along U.S. Route 82. Funding for the project was first received in 1998, with the freeway to be constructed in 5 phases through 2015. The main lane construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2008, with an intercahnge with I-27 to be completed by 2012. The route is reportedly designed to Interstate standards and many Lubbock residents believe it, as well as Loop 289 and Loop 327, will receive Interstate designation as part of the Port-to-Plains project. However, state and federal officials do not comment to questions regarding the possible renaming or any other rumored projects, such as the Loop 1729 beltway through rural Lubbock County similar to Loop 1604 in Bexar County.

[edit] Intersections with other interstates

• Interstate 40 in Amarillo, Texas

[edit] Notes

• I-27 is referred to by locals in Amarillo as Canyon Drive or the Canyon Expressway (or Canyon E-Way) as it heads south toward Canyon, Texas before bypassing it while U.S. 60 and 87 continue on to that city.
• In the video game Need for Speed: Underground 2, Interstate 27 is the name given to the fictional city of Bayview's freeway system.
• There is a punk band from Oklahoma calling themselves Interstate 27.
• There is an electronic music producer/remix group calling themselves Interstate 27.
• "Song of 27" from Richard Buckner's 1997 album Devotion + Doubt is named after and references I-27.

[edit] References

1. ^ Texas Department of Transportation, Highway Designation File - Interstate Highway 27
2. ^ http://users.adelphia.net/~pwolf/controlcities.html American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials control cities.
3. ^ Federal Highway Administration, [1]

[edit] External links

• Map of Proposed Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor
• Interstate 27 at Larry's Phat Page

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